Comment by jsrn

    > Vim's recent resurgence can largely be traced
    > to development of Textmate grinding to a complete
    > halt.

makes sense - but then why didn't Emacs see an equivalent resurgence (although personally I think Emacs did see a resurgence, not because of Textmate but because of Org Mode).

    > Git beats seven shades of shit out of SVN.

you could argue the same for Mercurial (or darcs, for that matter). But Git had the better initial marketing, Github, the Ruby folks used it etc.

    > I cannot think of anything that's changed in Perl
    > that'd justify any such interest.

hm, CPAN (and the arguably failed attempts to copy it by other language communities), Moose, MooseX::Declare, Devel::REPL, Dancer, Mojolicious, Task::Kensho, ...